Race.

Some of the main stories in American headlines today deal with blacks and their interaction with the police that serve their communities. Namely, the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases.

I want the first point that I make to be that you should always comply with police requests when it comes down to time for an arrest. Terrible things happen when you resist arrest.

While it would be outrageous to claim that white cops are out there mowing down Blacks left and right, it is true that there is a palpable uneasiness between police and the inner-city communities that they serve.

Why could this be?

I believe that it is the out-of-control crime statistics in the inner city, and not any sort of overt racism coming from these precincts.

It's the crime that drives this mistrust, not racism.

Statistics show that this is not an epidemic (cops killing blacks, but media sensationalization only manages to rile people up) , but there are certainly things that could be done to un-poison this well:

1) Body cameras on every cop.

2) Community outreach, like bike and helmet drives.

3) Increased minority hiring in inner-city precincts.

I wanted to note that I have no sympathy for the likes of Michael Brown, who attempted to take a police officer's gun.  Eric Garner was a different case, and it receives a different disposition in my book.

These incidences of violence (like Eric Garner) are merely the symptom and not the disease in and of themselves.

At the end of the day, police have a right to come home, which is why I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The real problem in the inner-city?
Blacks killing other blacks.

90 percent of all blacks are killed by other blacks.